I dislike the Metro UI in place of the start menu, plus I dont care for th apps at all. I am getting used to it though, only time will tell if I will actually begin to like/prefer it. also, having trouble finding things I used to find easily is annoying. Google is my friend!

- I like the search. It works great.
- I think the parent control changes are very good.
- The Task Manager is fantastic.
- It's snappy, and I'm running it on a P4 3.2 system with onboard graphics, a laptop HD and 2 GB of Ram.
- It boots very quickly.

I'll pay the money for the OS and a start menu app if it works better than Win 7. As much as it annoys me that MS is forcing Metro on upgraders, I am not about to leave a good OS on the table out of principle alone.

I cant even justify a start menu app. I just remove all of the stuff I dont like and populate the start page with programs I use. All other can be accessed using the start page + right click + all apps. Beyond that search.

Eh, for the most part Win7 does all those things for me without having to buy a new OS. I doubt theres actually enough for there apart from metro to justify a new OS, only fairly minor things were changed really in regards to the actual Windows part of the OS.

I admit that it is metro that I hate and dislike. Everything is wrapped up in that mostly. The closing of the platform, the forcing touch onto pcs and laptops, the loss of star menu, etc.

edit: Just so I'm clear, I am disagreeing with you, I dont think even without metro Win8 would be worth the upgrade.